Driving In My Car
Dec. 13th, 2002 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentToday was my first day off for almost a fortnight. I went car-hunting. It was fun, if at times a little depressing; I just don't fit in small cars. I'm too tall for the Rover 25, and my feet are too big for the Ford Fiesta.
In the end, it comes down to two choices. First up is the Peugeot 206. 1.1l engine, CD player, power steering, about 8,000 pounds. It's a nice car to drive, and I love the styling. Plus, after four years of driving a 306 without anything breaking I have a certain amount of trust in Peugeot. The big bonus is, it comes with a year's free insurance.
The other option is the Honda Jazz. 1.4l engine, tape player, no rear speakers, clever seats...and I fit in it. I really, properly, fit in it. I can sit far enough back from the steering wheel, I have plenty of space to put my feet in, my head isn't anywhere near the ceiling. And yet somehow, the exterior is the same size as a 206. It's also lovely wonderful to drive. It's smooth, it's quick, and the handling is astonishingly good.
You can see the downside coming from a mile off, can't you? Yes, it's a whole bunch more expensive: 9,000 pounds for the basic model, and that doesn't include insurance, which is looking to end up at about twelve hundred.
(Plus, the 206 is undeniably cool. The Honda, for all its virtues, really isn't that cool.)
If I want to, I can afford either. The comfort in which I do it will depend on how much Colwood decide to pay me; apparently it will be a number between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds, and the letter is in the post.
I hope it gets here soon.
In the end, it comes down to two choices. First up is the Peugeot 206. 1.1l engine, CD player, power steering, about 8,000 pounds. It's a nice car to drive, and I love the styling. Plus, after four years of driving a 306 without anything breaking I have a certain amount of trust in Peugeot. The big bonus is, it comes with a year's free insurance.
The other option is the Honda Jazz. 1.4l engine, tape player, no rear speakers, clever seats...and I fit in it. I really, properly, fit in it. I can sit far enough back from the steering wheel, I have plenty of space to put my feet in, my head isn't anywhere near the ceiling. And yet somehow, the exterior is the same size as a 206. It's also lovely wonderful to drive. It's smooth, it's quick, and the handling is astonishingly good.
You can see the downside coming from a mile off, can't you? Yes, it's a whole bunch more expensive: 9,000 pounds for the basic model, and that doesn't include insurance, which is looking to end up at about twelve hundred.
(Plus, the 206 is undeniably cool. The Honda, for all its virtues, really isn't that cool.)
If I want to, I can afford either. The comfort in which I do it will depend on how much Colwood decide to pay me; apparently it will be a number between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds, and the letter is in the post.
I hope it gets here soon.
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Date: 2002-12-16 12:27 am (UTC)Well flaunting wealth is terribly poor taste..... ;-)
TBH that probably came out worse than intended. The cash is only really a way of keeping score in the how-sucessful-am-I-game that we all play from time to time.
The amount of cash I earn is more than enough to keep me in the style to which I have become accustomed - and tbh I would have accepted less last time I was looking for work. It is just annoying when I have slogged through working (3 part time jobs at one stage!) and a post grad so I could be in a position to earn decent salary and a straight-out-of-college guy gets it straight away without really trying! It isn't even like you were returning to a job you had worked in a college placement or something......
Remind me never to play cards with you Harrison ;-)
Stewart (http://www.foxbasealpha.co.uk/wibblings)